New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. " "The desert is...atonal, cruel, clear, neither romantic nor classical, motionless and emotionless at one and the same time....Like death? Perhaps. And perhaps that is why life nowhere appears so brave, so bright, so full of oracle and miracle as in the desert." So Edward Abbey, novelist and poet, describes the desert he loves and in which he spent several..... More
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Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. "In Edward Abbey's critically acclaimed bestseller, The Monkey Wrench Gang, George Washington Hayduke- ex-Green Beret and "wilderness avenger, industrial development saboteur, night-time troublemaker, barroom brawler, free-time lover"- was last seen clinging to a cliff, under fire from both a helicopter and a posse. Now presumed dead by all who stalked him, whereabouts unknown to those who knew him best...HAYDUKE LIVES!-..... More
[Item #4514]
Exeter, UK: Societas, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. "In the summer of 2020, there was an eruption of violence directed towards historical monuments across Europe and North America. Statues were torn down while police watched. Prominent public figures, politicians and even museum directors cheered on the destruction. Supporters claimed it was payback for slavery; critics said it was neo-Marxist activism or sheer vandalism. Can we place the 2020 events in a...... More
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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1941 (1960). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans were sent on a journalistic assignment to discover and disclose the actual daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the South. They found and lived with three families for one month, and put together words and photographs that were eloquent, original, and devastating. 'Let Us Now..... More
[Item #4564]
Blue Creek, OH: Bloody Twin Press, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. "In the closed dark/ of the lodge I hear/ the rocks sing/ and sing again as/ water is poured, feel/ the spirits of rock/ and water searing,/ cleansing./ I pray in/ gratefulness./ This is the only peace/ there is." ("Sweat") A chapbook of poems by Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett (1927-1997), a Native American poet & professor of Cherokee-French ancestry who at one..... More
[Item #3774]
Madison, MN: American Writers Against The Vietnam War/ Sixties Press, 1970. Pre-First Edition, Second Printing. Single Folded Sheet. "Helicopters flutter overhead. the death-/ bee is coming. Supersabres/ like knots of neurotic energy sweep/ around and return./ This is Hamilton's triumph./ This is the advantage of a centralized bank./ B-52's come from Guam. All the teachers/ die in flames. The hopes of Tolstoy fall asleep in the/ ant-heap./ Do not ask..... More
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Oasis Publications, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. "(Breyten) Breytenbach has no ultimate truth to offer, no universal symbol to communicate. He has not prepared an aesthetic banquet for the senses, and there is no rhetoric in his visionary toasts. He shows unforgettably the plain facts of his panic paradise: Experiences of convulsion and passion, which he lived as a proud victim of his sensitivity, in a 'state of..... More
[Item #3572]
London, England: Ambit, 1968. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This vintage number of the British literary journal founded in 1959 & edited until 2013 by Dr. Martin Bax, still going strong as of this writing, features "Johnny 23" by William S. Burroughs accompanied with an illustration by Ron Sandford (inner back cover, unpaginated). Hypnotic, repetitive & riveting, this piece consists of eight titled sections beginning with the above title, & is..... More
[Item #4582]
New York, NY: Arnold Gingrich, 1968. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This vintage number of the venerable men's magazine chiefly edited by Harold Hayes famously includes a compilation of articles under the title "Chicago: The Year of Our Lord, 1968," with contributions (in order) by Terry Southern ("Grooving in Chi"); Jean Genet ("The Members of the Assembly"); William S. Burroughs ("The Coming of the Purple Better One") & John Sack ("In..... More
[Item #4615]
London, England: Knullar Ltd., 1970. First Printing. Loose Folded Sheets. This vintage number of the legendary British underground newspaper features two pieces by William S. Burroughs, Founding Father of the Beat Generation & Beyond, under the heading of "Mind Control": "Wait Here, Go There" & "Abstract," where WSB elucidates (& demonstrates) his & Co.'s theories on "suggestion tape" & other control systems which occupied much of his writing & that..... More
[Item #4629]
New York, NY: Columbia University / Semiotext(e) Inc., 1978. First Printing. Softcover. Offered here is the prophetic and highly sought-after "Schizo Culture" issue of the influential Semiotext(e) magazine, the first in what would be two issues bearing the "Schizo Culture" series name. If there is any single item which might have forcasted the Postmodern turn William S. Burroughs-related scholarship (and indeed, most all literary analysis in the academy) would take..... More
[Item #4624]
New York, NY: Serpent's Tail / High Risk Books, 1995. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. (Shoaf 88a. pg. 63; Schottlaender A66b.). "Bulldozers are destroying the rain forests, the cowering lemurs and flying foxes, the singing Kloss's gibbons, which produce the most beautiful and variegated music of any land animal, and the gliding colugo lemurs, which are helpless on the ground. All going, to make way for more and more devalued human..... More
[Item #4112]
Cambridge, MA: Richard Cambridge, 1992. First Edition. Sheets in "VeloBind" Binding. Inscribed & signed by Richard Cambridge to Thomas Rain Crowe. A self-published book of poems by Richard Cambridge, an intense "Slam" poet who appropriately lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Boston. We can imagine these tough, topical, momentum-generating Jeremiads being bellowed by Cambridge at a Poetry Slam, as he frequently & prominently does. A bold production bound in "VeloBind" with..... More
[Item #3691]
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1961. First American Edition. Hardcover. "In the last two years before his death (Albert) Camus himself selected the pieces that make up this volume because they represented the sum total of his life. The book stands as a record of the experiences that nourished all of Camus' great work- a record not only of those exterior events in which he was involved, but..... More
[Item #4571]
Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1987. First American Edition. Softcover. Signed by Ciaran Carson to Thomas Rain Crowe. "The Irish for No represents (Ciaran) Carson's return to poetry after a decade's devotion to the making and maintenance of traditional music. In (Carson's first collection) The New Estate he writes of Belfast, "The city is a map of the city." In The Irish for No, Carson becomes the cartographer of..... More
[Item #3766]
Santa Barbara, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1980. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tom Clark. "I do not believe in invoking the State, a deity of illusion, least of all against its own hallucinations. The CIA giveth, the CIA taketh away. But the powers that be would be well advised to deport (Chogyam) Trungpa to his native land, where after due reprocessing he might be given a hoe and sent to..... More
[Item #3791]
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Putting Peter Coyote's life into a few words would be impossible. He is an actor and writer. You may know his distinctive voice from so many documentaries and movies. He was a Digger and remembers those turbulent times well." (front flap) An essay by Peter Coyote, the acclaimed actor, screenwriter, director & author, about his experiences as a founding..... More
[Item #3452]
Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Judson Crews (1917-2010) was a poet, a bookseller, and small press publisher born and raised in Waco, Texas. It was in Waco that Judson first opened his Motive Bookshop and from the Waco location issued his first Motive Press publications. It is Taos, New Mexico, though that scholars of mid-century countercultural literature associate most closely with Crews; as his..... More
[Item #4212]
Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by and from the Collection of Thomas Rain Crowe. "The essays of Thomas Rain Crowe combine with the stirring illustrations of Robert Johnson to produce a prophetic vision of the world in which we live -- a vision of what we have and what we stand to lose through our careless disregard for the Earth and its finite resources. A kind..... More
[Item #3759]
Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2016. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "Tommy thought that it was strange that so many people would want to move away from their homes and live so close together and in such big houses. He didn't like seeing all the trees being cut down and the top of the mountain being pushed away by all the big machines. He frowned thinking..... More
[Item #4253]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1971. Second Enlarged Edition, First Edition Thus. Softcover. "TO BE FREE we've got to be free of/ any idea of freedom./ Today the State Dept lifted the ban on/ travel to China; and closed/ Merritt College." ("Revolutionary Letter #47," pg. 59) The canonical collection of poems by Diane di Prima (1934-2020), primary poet of the Beat Generation & beyond. Published as No. 27 in..... More
[Item #4300]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. "Selected by the poet herself, this volume gathers together essential writing from (Diane di Prima's) various books as well as many new poems. Pieces of a Song adds up to more than the sum of its parts: it is a total melody of a woman's life lived in the articulation of her art." (from back cover) A comprehensive collection of..... More
[Item #4315]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1970. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "In the following scenario, Dr. Paul Ehrlich predicts what our world will be like in ten years if the present course of environmental destruction is allowed to continue." (Preamble, pg. 5) A famously frightening & prophetic essay by Dr. Paul Ehrlich, the acclaimed & prize-winning American biologist & prolific author. Originally published in the September 1969 issue of Ramparts..... More
[Item #3793]
Ann Arbor, MI; Detroit, MI: Ann Arbor News; Detroit News; Campaign for Nuclear Free Ann Arbor, 1969; 1984. First Printings. Loose Folded Sheets; Single Sheet. General & President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969, affectionately nicknamed "Ike") was called "The Quintessential American" by journalist Andy Rooney. Not since George Washington had one great man accomplished so much, first in war as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II; then as..... More
[Item #4034]
New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1962. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features an essay on nighttime Paris by one of its foremost authorities, the great proto-Beat mentor Henry Miller, interspersed with classic images of the nocturnal city by Brassai (Gyula Halasz), the acclaimed photographer. Also in this issue are contributions of poetry by Beat poet-..... More
[Item #4416]